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STUDY UNIT 3
• execute
• monitor
• learner need to be aware of own mental and cognitive abilities – learning styles and
learning skills
• if learner can implement meta learning learner will become an effective, independent,
lifelong learner.
Reflective teaching (SG p 51)
The critical examining of practices, principles and the forming of a teachers own interpretations
of everyday experiences
Elements of reflective teaching
• Cognitive element
Content knowledge
Curriculum
Characteristics of learners
Teaching contexts
Educational purposes/aims
• Critical element
o Reflect on the best means to reach an end – co-operative learning to achieve socialization of
learners
o Reflective action , critical theory – highlights teacher’s thinking about dilemmas of teaching
and social outcomes
• Teacher’s narratives
• the level
• the characteristics
• the curriculum
STUDY UNIT: 5
Disadvantages:
• Can make process of planning rigid